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It's not unusual for them not to review a game anyway, so I don't think people need to jump to conclusions about it. They never did a review for Torchlight II even though they praised it quite a lot and seemingly have a good relationship with the Runic guys who brought in the game for them to show on a few occasions.

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If Ikuu's copy of the article is right, it isn't that scathing. It only names three journalists and mostly tears into Knightly simply because it's right: He's nothing more a shrill now a days. The last time he did "journalism" is that Reggie Wii2 interview that was maybe borderline journalism.

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So I just read the unedited article posted here and damn good article. I've not heard of this guy before but I certainly like his style. The industry is a joke and it's because of shit like this. Companies should not be handing out free consoles, games, trips, etc to journalists and they should have the self respect and integrity to refuse them if these companies do that. Hopefully this guy starts his own site or finds work at one that will have some balls not to cower to demands of someone who obviously has no integrity.

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I.. I dont know what to say. This guy tries to investigate the strong relationship between PR and their articles. How maybe it unethical to get gifts from publishers, and citing twitter convos. And he gets attacked by other journalists?? That does not make his point all valid but it does stregthen it when they cant argue against it.

Then again MoHWarfighter got SLAMMED in the press. Maybe there is some integrity left?

Also lol @ the hellgate thing. 5 years ago wow, such long time ago (also what did he do??)

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Yeah, when will we get some hard hitting, real investigative journalism in the games industry. How dare they pose with a Doritos bag, how can we take them seriously when they try to win a PS3 by tweeting a hashtag? All that integrity they had, just ruined.

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Rab is one of the funniest and most genuinely enthusiastic gamers out there. I can count on about 4 fingers the people whose opinion i'd 100% trust on gaming and he's one of them.

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It violated the cardinal rule of game journalists. That is it called out the BS actions/words of a 'journalist' without refocusing the issue to make it look like the actions of the journalist were kosher.

As usual the journalists have started to circle their wagons to defend themselves from the totally biased and uninformed 'forum posters' and non-conforming journalists. Though this time they can't use public twitter to ego-stroke each other and arrogantly dismiss all criticism as irrelevant and uninformed. The obvious response is really only for when they do something really stupid like mistake a Photoshop for upcoming game confirmation.

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If Ikuu's copy of the article is right, it isn't that scathing. It only names three journalists and mostly tears into Knightly simply because it's right: He's nothing more a shrill now a days. The last time he did "journalism" is that Reggie Wii2 interview that was maybe borderline journalism.

I used to think he was just that but Keighley has done a fantastic job of documenting the last day of development of multiple (primarily Valve) projects and interviewing those involved. It's fascinating stuff, you should really check out Portal 2: The Final Hours on Steam.

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So I just read the unedited article posted here and damn good article. I've not heard of this guy before but I certainly like his style. The industry is a joke and it's because of shit like this. Companies should not be handing out free consoles, games, trips, etc to journalists and they should have the self respect and integrity to refuse them if these companies do that. Hopefully this guy starts his own site or finds work at one that will have some balls not to cower to demands of someone who obviously has no integrity.

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I'm really disappointed in Eurogamer for amending the article. I understand that they might have had to spend a bit of money to defend someone who might not have been very important to them... but there has to be a line of integrity that you draw for yourself and that line should be well before you cower to the threat of a lawsuit because someone factually quoted someone else with a bit of an opinion below that quote.

Simon Singh is respected for a reason, and while writing about video games may never be as important as what Simon Singh writes about, it definitely will never be taken seriously if this kind of crap keeps happening.

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If people are reacting so harshly about the article it makes me wonder if the people he are addressing are in denial?

The lawsuit bullshit is particularly frustrating. Shame on Lauren Wainwright for pulling the lawsuit card.

She doesn't the campaign of hate, though. Was her Twitter always locked for all but confirmed followers, though? If not, that seems like a red flag to me that she has some issues (though after this I COULD understand locking it for a bit)

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You agreed with the guy spouting conspiracy theories about why they weren't reviewing the game, which is entirely based on the assumption that dance central 3 would get a negative score-presumably beecause the game was broken or bad. They covered the game plenty with a quick look, coverage on multiple podcasts, etc.

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I really hope this gives Rob some press and another (hopefully non UK) website makes him an offer to continue writing features for them.

I can not support the stupid crap some corners of the internet is doing with regards to Lauren Wainwright.

Don't support her by avoid her articles and any website that is associated with her. Spread the word about what has happened. Send a message that way.

But Jesus Christ stop embarrassing yourself internet.

And it Im also a bit conflicted about how to feel about EG's reaction to just basically fire the guy. On the one had UK liable laws are FUCKED and even a small chance of a case would scare most off. I think they should have edited the feature and just leaved it like that. Give the guy a slap on the arm but dont kick him out the door.....

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You agreed with the guy spouting conspiracy theories about why they weren't reviewing the game, which is entirely based on the assumption that dance central 3 would get a negative score-presumably beecause the game was broken or bad. They covered the game plenty with a quick look, coverage on multiple podcasts, etc.

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And it Im also a bit conflicted about how to feel about EG's reaction to just basically fire the guy. On the one had UK liable laws are FUCKED and even a small chance of a case would scare most off. I think they should have edited the feature and just leaved it like that. Give the guy a slap on the arm but dont kick him out the door.....

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That Lauren woman writes for the Sun? That alone sets off alarm bells.

The wheels in the PR machines spun by big game publishers keep on spinning.

I really need to start supporting true gaming journalists. I'll follow Rab if he ventures back into gaming. Shame I didn't before this whole mess because he seems like he really loves writing and dissecting games.